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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 16.5 hrs on record
Posted: 26 Dec, 2015 @ 8:16am
Updated: 28 Dec, 2015 @ 12:15am

Life is Strange isn't hard, yet it hits you hard.
Life is Strange isn't challenging, yet it shows daily challenges.
Life is Strange isn't long, yet its impact lasts long.
Life is Strange isn't a puzzle, yet it leaves you puzzled.
Life is Strange isn't giving questions, yet it offers answers.
Life is Strange isn't replayable, yet finds in the replay its core.
Life is Strange isn't real, yet it feels so.
Life is Strange isn't about relationship, friensdhip, love, hate, light or darkness. It's about the most underestimated gift: life.

I am unable to call it "game" as it would lose all the artistic veil surrounding Arcadia Bay. Art is something you perceive, it is something that comes out of the blue without a reason or a purpose. Art is something you can perceive in every step Max takes, and this is how I would label Life is Strange: art.
Dontnod has made a terrific job and gives us lessons that we can easily detatch from this title and apply it in our everyday life. All the serious themes covered in such a little time amount made me understand the reason why the developers have opened a support group for those who felt really affected by some of them.

And perhaps the core of this experience is simple and complicated at the same time:
Life is hard, life is challenging, life is short, life is puzzling, life is uncertain, life is one only, life is strange. But life..is life.
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BIG GAMING 25 Dec, 2023 @ 4:33pm 
Y'know you could say the same about cruelty squad
637173737815843912874671215634 24 Jun, 2020 @ 1:42pm 
Life is Strange isn't hard, yet i broke my keyboard becouse of the frustration that came with the realization that i wasted my time on this trash
Life is Strange isn't challenging, yet it made me ragequit in 30 minutes.
Life is Strange isn't long and so is its impact.
Life is Strange isn't a puzzle, but it still requires mental gymnasticks to make sense of this convoluted bullshit.
Life is Strange isn't giving questions and doesnt offer any answers.
Life is Strange isn't replayable, yet some people still call it a game.
Life is Strange isn't real, thank god.
Life is Strange isn't about relationship, friensdhip, love, hate, light or darkness. It's about the most underestimated gift: the fact that you can watch it on youtube without paying any money and still expirience it in its fullest.
637173737815843912874671215634 14 May, 2020 @ 10:42am 
it doesnt its bad
Jeckenn 10 Jan, 2019 @ 10:29am 
Only thing I would add to this is I thought the game was all about LOVE and the game shows you that LIFE is not worth living, or rather not as good a LIFE, without someone that loves you and you love them, your soulmate, cause Max finds her's no doubt about that in my ming :LIS_butterfly:
Captain Kaz MS 67th Doge Raider 25 Jul, 2017 @ 1:11pm 
The only things this game hits hard are your wallet and mental patience to endure awful writting and a "game" that piggybacks and half-asses a system done much better by Telltale Games and this is coming from a non fan of Telltale Games.
Shulus 21 Apr, 2017 @ 4:15am 
Just like to add something, you describe the game as art, yet IMO at least, every game is a form of art, albeit how good or bad they may be, so yes, this game is art, but so is every other.
✠Imoogi✠ 6 Mar, 2017 @ 11:46am 
Your view is my favourite view :heart:
Midir-W 21 Feb, 2017 @ 4:47am 
Your view is wonderful.Hope we will have more "game" like it!
MatsuoBasho 21 May, 2016 @ 1:46am 
Sorry for the late answer, been out of Steam for a whie due to work. I am so happy you loved it! It's really hard to define it a game when so much artistic inspiration is present!
Markeyedie 13 May, 2016 @ 3:39pm 
This is my fav review for this game. i have only watch Jack play it and i want to buy it so bad. Everyone who hates this game must be a person with no soul. no heart. no feelings. This game reminds me off a quote or poem that when something walks into your life and stays there for awhile it becomes part of you but when it goes it takes a part of you with it and then your never the same again. that is what this game does.